Brewburger’s appeared in Season 4, Episode 13 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Doin’ Their Own Thing,” which aired November 10, 2008, as an Omaha brewpub and burger operation pairing craft beer with quality burgers in a setting that offered more than the standard bar food experience. The restaurant has since permanently closed. Quick Facts Restaurant: […]
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Burgers, Nebraska, Omaha, Restaurants, Season 4Tioli’s Crazee Burger on 30th Street in San Diego’s North Park neighborhood has built its reputation on a burger menu that takes “crazee” seriously: exotic meat options including elk, kangaroo, ostrich, and wild boar alongside the standard beef, all ground fresh and cooked to order. It appeared in Season 4, Episode 11 of Diners, Drive-Ins
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Burgers, Califonia, Restaurants, San Diego, Season 4Chef Lou’s Westside Drive-In on West State Street in Boise has been a drive-in institution in the Treasure Valley since it opened, serving the Idaho specialty of finger steaks — beef strips battered and deep-fried, invented in Boise in the 1950s — alongside classic American drive-in burgers and the kind of comfort food menu that
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Boise, Burgers, Idaho, Restaurants, Season 6Twisted Root Burger Co. opened in Dallas’s Deep Ellum neighborhood in 2006, built around the same creative burger philosophy that Kuma’s Corner was developing simultaneously in Chicago: take a serious 10-ounce beef patty and build something unexpected on top of it. At Twisted Root the wildcard is game meat — venison, elk, bison, wild boar,
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Burgers, Dallas, Restaurants, Season 6, TexasLuke Tobias opened Kuma’s Corner in 2005 at the corner of Belmont and Francisco in Chicago’s Avondale neighborhood, intending to run a craft beer bar with heavy metal on the sound system. The burgers caught on faster than the beer list. Almost every burger on the menu is named after a heavy metal or hard
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Burgers, Chicago, Gastropub, Illinois, Restaurants, Season 6Paul Eighmey moved from Buffalo to Austin in 1990 with a dream of owning a bar. In 1994 he and his partner Mark Supples opened Casino El Camino on East Sixth Street, named after Eighmey’s stage name from his punk rock days. For the first 14 years, the bar’s food was what Eighmey calls Sixth
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Austin, Burgers, Restaurants, Season 4, TexasThe Cove in San Antonio is a laundromat, car wash, and restaurant operating from the same building, which either sounds like the most impractical business concept imaginable or the most practical one depending on your perspective. It appeared in Season 4, Episode 6 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Totally Unexpected,” which aired August 18, 2008,
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American, Burgers, Restaurants, San Antonio, Season 4, TexasThe building that became White Manna Hamburgers was first built for the 1939 New York World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows. It was purchased by Louis Bridges, moved to Hackensack, and opened on River Street in 1946. It has been there ever since — the same small stainless steel diner structure, the same flat-top grill, the
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Burgers, New Jersey, Restaurants, Season 2Ann Arbor’s oldest hamburger stand has been grinding its own chuck daily since Jim Shafer opened it in 1953 at 551 South Division Street, a short walk from the University of Michigan campus. Rich Magner started working there as a student in 1969, left, came back in 1993, and bought the business. The ordering system
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Burgers, Michigan, Restaurants, Season 2Bert’s Burger Bowl appeared in Season 5, Episode 12 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “All Kinds of Fast Food,” which aired March 16, 2009, as a Santa Fe burger stand serving the kind of honest, no-frills green chile cheeseburger that New Mexico does better than anywhere else in the country. The restaurant has since permanently
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